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The Jaina world of Non-living
facts of expansion and contraction in soul spacepoints when one grows from child to adult and from adult to old state due to spacepoints of foodvariforms etc. leading to different sizes of the body. 5. The Vaišeșika or Nyaya School goes against this Jaina concept through this inference :
"The soul does not have spacepointal expansion and contraction because it is non-mattergic and pervasive like the space."
This inference has a counter-inference as above in 5.16.4. This inference is also contradicted by the Jaina scriptures whose validity is said to be undisputed. 6. The concept of particle size, hair-front size or thumb-size of the soul does not stand scrutiny as : (i) it will localise the sensation of pain and pleasures etc. to specific parts only and not pervasive of the whole body, (ii) the fast communicating nature of sensations will lead to Vedantic monism of one-soulness in the world. This is undesirable for the Nyaya-Vaišeșika School. 7. Vidyānanda also proves non-splitting or non-composite nature of the soul by inferences, thus, confirming Akalanka :
(i) The soul spacepoints do not split or are non-composite because they are non-causal and (ii) soul is an indivisible and non-mattergic reality like space. 8. It has already been said that from idealistic point of view, all the realities are self-supporting. However, from the realistic point of view, the space is the substratum of all the realities.
The expansion and contraction of soul spacepoints ( of course, associated with fine karmic and luminous body) has been postulated by the Jainas through their concept of extrications (samudghāta). There are seven extrications (i) feelingly (ii) passional, (iii) transformational, (iv) luminous bodial, (v) exit-bodial, (vi) omnisciently and (vii) pre-birthal. The term extrication is defined in Gommatsāra as extension or exit of soul spacepoints from the body without completely leaving the original body. It takes place under the above seven conditions. 10. It has been said that the fine general body plants (Nigotas ) occupy the least number of occupied spacepoints while the largest fish
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